need learning direction suggestions on using editors
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu Dec 25 18:40:15 PST 2003
"Zhang Weiwu" <weiwuzhang at hotmail.com> writes:
> Should I advance to vim right now or emacs, or is it that I didn't dig
> into vi deep enough to release its full power? I wonder how many
> programmers are still using 4BSD vi (compare to enchanced vi's)? Maybe
> none? Maybe many?
The vi in FreeBSD's base system is not derived from the original
UC Berkeley distributions. It is actually nvi. [I don't know whether
you care about this distinction, but it seemed possible...]
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